Mobility projects

The purpose of mobility projects is to transfer knowledge, qualification and/or innovative methods improvement and updating. The projects may be focused on professional language training as well.

In the first stage of mobility projects, Slezská Diakonie focused on its own staff and during 2007-2008 ten employees took part in study visits in partner diaconal establishments in Germany. The projects were funded by the National Agency for European Educational Programmes, the programme Leonardo da Vinci. Working experiences were shared and new knowledge and skills adapted in the sphere of elderly care, special pedagogy within centres for children with disabilities, assistant services and occupational therapy for adult people with disabilities. Further life-long learning initiative for the staff is planned in the sphere of mobile hospice care in which the mobility element should be preserved.

The second project stage aims at making mobility abroad possible to clients with health, mental and combined disabilities who make use of service provision in Slezská Diakonie. Assistants of the clients will become the project participants as well. The main goals are:

• using mobility in order to make the non-formal life-long learning process accessible to people with disabilities
• active and conscious using of alternative communication because of language barrier
• making new contacts by the clients themselves
• direct confrontation of clients with the background of our partner organizations, other customs, other orientation elements in the town, a different foreign currency, unfamiliar goods
• experiencing humour and enthusiasm of people with disabilities across borders

The first mobility of clients of Slezská Diakonie was realized in April 2009 with the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode, Germany as partner organization. Also in 2009, Slezská Diakonie hosted clients and their assistants from Finland and Germany. For more information on the workshop we organized within their visit, click here...

In 2011, four clients and five staff-members of Slezská Diakonie travelled to Israel to visit our partner organization Amuta Chimes Israel, Tel-Aviv. For more details, click here.

In May 2011, various centres of Slezská Diakonie hosted eight Israeli people with disabilities and their four assistants. For more information on the project, click here.